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Monday, May 16, 2011

Laughter is the Best Medicine

Lydia and Leigh are hosting today's nifty blogfest! All of us are supposed to post a joke related to writing or our jobs, so here's mine (please note that I did not write this myself, but instead scavenged it from the deepest tubes of the interwebz):

A psychologist was walking along a Hawaiian beach when she kicked a bottle poking up through the sand. Upon opening it, she was astonished to see a cloud of smoke and a genie smiling at her.

"For your kindness," the genie said, "I will grant you one wish!"

The psychologist considered for a moment, then replied, "I have always wanted a road from Hawaii to California."

The genie grimaced. "Listen, I'm sorry, but I can't do that! Think of all the pilings needed to hold up the highway and how long they'd have to be to reach the bottom of the ocean. Think of all the pavement. That's too much to ask."

"OK," the psychologist said, not wanting to be unreasonable. "I'm a psychologist. Make me understand my patients. What makes them laugh and cry, why are they so difficult to get along with, and what do they really want? Basically, teach me to understand what makes them tick!"

The genie sighed. "Did you want two lanes or four?"

What do you think? Funny? Lame? Uncomfortably accurate?

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46 comments:

LOL -- being a psychologist has some similarities to being a teacher. I didn't know about the blogfest -- it might have been fun to post some humorous teaching moments. I CAN tell you the funniest thing that ever happened to me as a teacher was when one of my 4th grade students forgot to wear pants to school. (Long t-shirt, no shorts underneath. Ooops.)

hi miss sarah! for sure im gonna share that joke with my brother. it got me laughing cause i know how hard his job is just like yours is. i missed out on the blogfest but for sure i like laughing.i did a post on it one time and a couple said i could need to repost it. so i think im gonna....hugs from lenny

About Me

I'm a child psychologist with an unapologetically empirical orientation. I'm also an author who writes unapologetically fantastical YA fiction. In that venture, I am repped by Kathleen Ortiz of New Leaf Literary and Media. SANCTUM and FRACTURED, the first two books in my YA urban fantasy series, GUARDS OF THE SHADOWLANDS, are available now (Skyscape/Amazon Children's Publishing). Book 3 in the series comes out 10/14. My co-authored (with Walter Jury) YA thriller, SCAN, comes out in 5/1/14 (Putnam & Sons/Penguin). OF METAL AND WISHES, my gothic YA, comes out in 8/5/14 (McElderry/Simon & Schuster). I also write adult paranormal romance for 47 North/Amazon. I like to stay busy.